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housefather

/hous-fah-ther/US // ˈhaʊsˌfɑ ðər //UK // (ˈhaʊsˌfɑːðə) //

家父,家长,家长会,家政服务

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.

Examples

  • The law does not clearly mark off the right of the injured housefather from the right of the offended magistrate.

  • Go only to Father Balthazar, housefather, and see if he doth not call it a sending of a lamb among wolves.

  • “Nothing warm in the house,” said the housefather, a carpenter himself.

  • Blood relationship, family, and the rulership of the housefather are in this early period the base and centre of social order.